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The Everyday Magic Blog

I'm so happy to share my blog, started in 2008 as part of my writing practice and as way to connect directly with you! Please peruse the blog, and sign up to get the latest posts. You can also get my beautifully-produced and illustrated collection of many blog posts, Everyday Magic: Fieldnotes on the Mundane and the Miraculous through Meadowlark Press here. Thanks for being part of my everyday magic.

The Girl and the Luna Moth: Everyday Magic, Day 289

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 5, 20111 min read

The Girl and the Luna Moth: Everyday Magic, Day 289

When Natalie was 10, our friend Coco took a beautiful picture of her with a lunar moth on her birthday, April 28, which happens to...

Finding Our Cardboard Totem Animals: Everyday Magic, Days 287-88

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 4, 20111 min read

Finding Our Cardboard Totem Animals: Everyday Magic, Days 287-88

Friday, I had one of the quintessential Lawrence nights out, wandering downtown on a perfect spring evening with Ken, Anne and Bruce,...

I Love Lilac: Everyday Magic, Days 280-281

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 28, 20111 min read

I Love Lilac: Everyday Magic, Days 280-281

There are days that vanish too quickly, particularly many days populating the month of April when there are floral explosions so...

It's Its, Not It's: Everyday Magic, Day 271

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 19, 20111 min read

It's Its, Not It's: Everyday Magic, Day 271

Okay, at the risk of being a grammar Nazi, please forgive me: It drives me crazy when I see it’s when it should be its and visa-versa....

Why Passover Is Christmas, My Birthday & A Broadway Musical All Rolled Up Into One Meal: Everyd

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 18, 20113 min read

Why Passover Is Christmas, My Birthday & A Broadway Musical All Rolled Up Into One Meal: Everyd

Last year south of the Wakarusa Take your light-encrusted pine trees, bright birthday bows on mystery packages and belting out...

Lightning Bolt In Rearview Mirror: Everyday Magic, Day 267

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 15, 20111 min read

Lightning Bolt In Rearview Mirror: Everyday Magic, Day 267

I kept driving, but told myself about the storm as well as about the big bright green, alighting on every branch except for those ones...

What Not To Think About When Trying to Fall Asleep: Everyday Magic, Day 266

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 13, 20111 min read

What Not To Think About When Trying to Fall Asleep: Everyday Magic, Day 266

Here’s a partial list: If it’s worth waking up early and making gluten-free pancakes from scratch. How many cars I’ve owned in my life....

What IS On My Mind?: The Lunacy of Spring Fever: Everyday Magic, Day 265

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 11, 20111 min read

What IS On My Mind?: The Lunacy of Spring Fever: Everyday Magic, Day 265

Not much evidently. It's a crisp day interspersed with big wind gusts, heartbreaking bright, pale green all directions, and the explosion...

Homesickness & The Squeaky Swing Bird: Everyday Magic, Day 259

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 6, 20111 min read

Homesickness & The Squeaky Swing Bird: Everyday Magic, Day 259

Back to my room mid-morning after a wonderful meeting with students, I lay on the bed, trying to power-nap myself back to full...

What Kind of Kitchen Appliance Would You Be?: Everyday Magic, Day 256

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 3, 20111 min read

What Kind of Kitchen Appliance Would You Be?: Everyday Magic, Day 256

Staying up last night in the faculty dorm at Goddard, I trotted out my proverbial party question, one that only draws groans from the...

The Miracle of Coffee: Everyday Magic, Day 255

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 2, 20111 min read

The Miracle of Coffee: Everyday Magic, Day 255

I used to be a tea person, but after a naturopath told me to take a break from black tea, assuring me coffee was fine, my little...

Winter Wonderland At Work Across The Dreamtime: Everyday Magic, Day 254

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Apr 1, 20111 min read

Winter Wonderland At Work Across The Dreamtime: Everyday Magic, Day 254

The snow’s job is to fall steady and thick all night and all day. The sky’s job is to let it. Meanwhile, my job is to talk with BFA...

Will This Winter Never End?: Everyday Magic, Day 252

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 30, 20111 min read

Will This Winter Never End?: Everyday Magic, Day 252

Dear Winter, I’ve had it with you. Not that I don’t love your snowy fields of peace and pizzazz in late December, the wicked winds that...

Depressing Day & Astonishing (Virtual) Aurora Borealis: Everyday Magic, Day 251

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 29, 20111 min read

Depressing Day & Astonishing (Virtual) Aurora Borealis: Everyday Magic, Day 251

This long, fast-moving time-lapses video in the borderlands between Norway and Russia shows dazzling arrays of stars as green waves shoot...

Rock Chalk Please Hawk: Everyday Magic, Day 249

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 27, 20111 min read

Rock Chalk Please Hawk: Everyday Magic, Day 249

“The game starts at 1:20,” I told Ken, who burst out laughing. “Now, when you know when the game starts, I know it’s everyday knowledge.”...

Happiness: Everyday Magic, Day 245

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 23, 20111 min read

Happiness: Everyday Magic, Day 245

The cold front powered through, the abnormal summer weather gave way to true spring, and the days of persistent sinus/ear/whatever pain...

How Can You Not Love Kansas Basketball?: Everyday Magic, Day 241

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 20, 20112 min read

How Can You Not Love Kansas Basketball?: Everyday Magic, Day 241

It’s overwhelmingly thrilling. It’s astonishingly sweet, even the losses. It’s dramatic as all get-out, and you get to see people fly. So...

The Entertainment Value of Bad Food: Everyday Magic, Day 240

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 20, 20111 min read

The Entertainment Value of Bad Food: Everyday Magic, Day 240

It looked like cat food. It smelled worse. “Try just a taste,” Ken said, and so I did. It was more horrible than I imagined. We were...

Fog Day: Everyday Magic, Day 230

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 9, 20111 min read

Fog Day: Everyday Magic, Day 230

I don’t function well in fog, the blurring of sky and earth and pressure of the air something I feel inside as well as all around me. It...

About That Life From Other Planets….:Everyday Magic, Day 228

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Mar 7, 20111 min read

About That Life From Other Planets….:Everyday Magic, Day 228

In a nutshell, there is evidence that some meteorites contain evidence of life beyond earth, but this evidence hasn’t yet been vetted by...

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